John Stuart Mill Quotes about Philosophy

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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

John Stuart Mill

Philosophy, Lying, Rights

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

John Stuart Mill

Freedom, Philosophy, Differences

On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

John Stuart Mill

Philosophy, Thinking, Errors

John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.62

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

John Stuart Mill

Philosophy, Atheism, Principles

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth.

John Stuart Mill

Philosophy, Inspire, Intellectual

John Stuart Mill (2009). “Dissertations and Discussions”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

John Stuart Mill

Philosophy, Self, Mind

John Stuart Mill (1874). “Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism”, p.150

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

John Stuart Mill

Philosophy, Reason, Theory

John Stuart Mill (1856). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.448

It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied.

John Stuart Mill

Philosophy, Past, Might

John Stuart Mill (1864). “Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical”, p.11